please help, lost my partition
Hello!
I lost my partition. One of my most important ones...
It is a 100gb partition with all my personal datas, emails, documents etc...
I had a crash in kde, and I had to reset the computer. After the boot, the
boot process said that it can not mount /dev/hda2. Unfortunatelly, I can not
write you exactly the output, because I can't copy/paste, so I have just my
brain to remember the lines.
It says Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,2).
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems.
When I type cfdisk /dev/hda it can not detect that /dev/hda2 is an ext3 fs,
so under the FS Type column it writes Linux, instead of Linux ext3. I had a
problem like this before with another filesystem. The problem was EXACTLY
the same. Crash -> reboot -> can not mount.... But then probably I made a
huge mistake: typed fsck /dev/hda1. It asked me a lot (realy lot), so I
ctrl+c'd, and typed fsck -y /dev/hda1. It worked a lot (20-30mins), and
wrote a lot of things, like bad imagic number (or like that), and wrong
inode etc... but the question was always the same: Clear?<y>. I couldn't
choose. Yes, clear... After fsck finished, I had a still unusable partition,
could not mount it, and couldn't fix it, because after that, every time I typed
fsck /dev/hda2, it said can not find superblock, specify another superblock
with -B option. I tried a lot of number but neither of them worked. So I
lost that partition.
I _don't_ want to lose this partition. I need this partition. Half of my
life is in this partition. Please someone help, what should I do to preserve
the data on my partition.
Very big thanks!
Daniel
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